[80413] in Cypherpunks
Lethality, guns, knives, & reality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Tue May 20 22:41:37 1997
From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 20:26:27 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Hi,
Forwarded message:
> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 13:05:12 -0800
> From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
> Subject: Re: SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
> Also, the "boiling a frog slowly" metaphor comes to mind...most people have
> little idea how the vise has tightened. And in the case of "gun rights,"
> most Americans are apparently of the opinion that their lives will be safer
> if all guns are banned.
>
> (Which may be true, if _all_ guns were banned.
The last time I looked at the FBI stats on homicide deaths by beatings with
clubs, hands, and feet were much larger than homicides by gun or knife.
trivial dribble:
Nifty thing I found out today is that the cleaner that I use on my
whiteboard at work burns quite rapidly.
Jim Choate
CyberTects
ravage@ssz.com
